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This article is about the album by Carrie Underwood. For the structures used in amusement parks and carnivals, see Amusement ride.
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Carnival Ride is the second studio album from American country pop artist Carrie Underwood. It was released in the United States on October 23, 2007[1][2]. It has recently been certified Double Platinum by the RIAA.[3] The album includes the #1 country single "So Small" and the newest single "All-American Girl". The album debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200 Chart selling 527,000 copies, giving Underwood her first #1 album.

History

Underwood has explained the meaning behind the album's title and theme, saying:

You step onto this ride called life, and it’s a crazy thing you don’t know anything about, but you get on it anyway. You do what you can to lean different directions to try and get it to go where you want it to go, but you can’t stop it – it just keeps moving. That’s why Carnival Ride works as my album title, because it describes the wonderful craziness that I’ve been through over the past couple years.[1]


Carnival Ride became Underwood’s first number-one album on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling 527,000 copies in its first week of release.[4].In its second week the album sold less than 190,000 copies. The album also debuted at number 1 on the Top Digital Albums, Top Country Albums, Top Canadian Albums and the United World Chart. The album has sold nearly 2 million copies in the United States.

Reception

Critical reception of the album so far has been mainly positive.The first official review of the album from All Music Guide, gave it 4 out of 5 stars, on par with what they gave her debut. The site classified the album as "completely contemporary country", and said "the remarkable thing about Carnival Ride is that it's stronger song for song than Some Hearts." They also praised the album for having "the appearance of a genuine heart, something that no other big country-pop album has had since the glory days of Come on Over." [5]

USA Today also praised the album for its versatility saying "The songs call for vulnerability (You Won’t Find This), urgency (Flat on the Floor), sympathy (Crazy Dreams, her co-written salute to “the hairbrush singers and dashboard drummers” from whose ranks she sprang), humor (The More Boys I Meet, the tag line of which goes “The more I love my dog”) and extreme role-playing (Last Name’s saga of a bar pickup that turns into an impulsive Vegas marriage). She delivers on all counts." [6] Associated Content gave it "8 out of 10 stars for a very solid sophomore album. If you're a fan of country music or Carrie Underwood, make sure you go get her new album, Carnival Ride." [7] The Boston Herald gave the album a B, and claimed, "Underwood manages enough spunk to occasionally avoid the cookie-cutter." [8]

Track listing

  1. "Flat on the Floor" (Ashley Monroe, Brett James) – 3:18
  2. "All-American Girl" (Ashley Gorley, Carrie Underwood, Kelley Lovelace) – 3:32
  3. "So Small" (Luke Laird, Hillary Lindsey, Underwood) – 3:47
  4. "Just a Dream" (Gordie Sampson, Steven McEwan, H. Lindsey) – 4:44
  5. "Get Out of This Town" (Sampson, McEwan, H. Lindsey) – 3:02
  6. "Crazy Dreams" (George Barry Dean, Troy Verges, Underwood) – 3:36
  7. "I Know You Won't" (Wendell Mobley, Neil Thrasher, McEwan) – 4:19
  8. "Last Name" (Laird, Lindsey, Underwood) – 4:01
  9. "You Won't Find This" (Cathy Dennis, Tom Shapiro) – 3:19
  10. "I Told You So" (Randy Travis) – 4:17
  11. "The More Boys I Meet" (Scott Kennedy, McEwan) – 3:33
  12. "Twisted" (Laird, H. Lindsey, James) – 3:56
  13. "Wheel of the World" (H. Lindsey, Chris Lindsey, Aimee Mayo) – 4:42

Limited-edition versions of the album purchased at Target retail stores include a bonus DVD with live performances of "So Small", "Get Out of This Town", "Just a Dream" and "The More Boys I Meet", as well as a five-part interview.[citation needed]

A Platinum Musicpass version also includes a bonus track entitled "Sometimes You Leave" (written by Chris Tompkins, Kara Dioguardi, Shridhar Solanki), videos for "So Small" and "Before He Cheats", and a digital booklet.[citation needed]

Charts

Album

Chart (2007) Peak
position 		Certification Sales
Canada Album Chart 1 2× Platinum 200,000+
United States Billboard 200 1 2× Platinum[9] 1,867,500[4][10]
Australian Country Chart 9[11] Gold 35,000+
United World Chart 1[12] Platinum 2,100,550+


Singles

Year Single U.S. Country U.S. Hot 100 CAN Hot 100 United World Chart
2007 "So Small" 1 17 14 28
"All-American Girl"A 5 35 56
  • ACurrent single.

References

  1. ^ a b "Carrie Underwood Invites Fans Along for a Carnival Ride" (Press release). Arista Nashville. 2007-08-29. Retrieved 2007-08-30. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "Carrie Underwood plans fall CD release". MSNBC. 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2007-08-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride Certified Double Platinum, as 2007 Marks Another Milestone Year!" (Press release). Arista Nashville. 2007-12-14. Retrieved 2007-12-16. {{cite press release}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ a b Hasty, Katie (2007-10-31). "Underwood Leads Three Country Debuts Onto Chart". Billboard Magazine. Retrieved 2007-10-31. Cite error: The named reference "Billboard" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ "allmusic (Carnival Ride)". allmusic. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
  6. ^ "USA Today (Carnival Ride)". USA Today. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
  7. ^ "associated content (Carnival Ride)". associated content. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
  8. ^ "Boston Herald (Carnival Ride)". Boston Herald. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
  9. ^ Carrie Underwood - News Story
  10. ^ CMT : News : Carrie Underwood Sells 527,101 Units in Debut Week
  11. ^ Top 20 Country Chart - Australian Record Industry Assocation
  12. ^ http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums-week45-2007.htm
Preceded by Billboard 200 number-one album
November 10 2007 		Succeeded by
Preceded by United World Chart number-one album
November 10 2007 		Succeeded by


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